Newcastle University, UK can trace its origins to a School of Medicine and Surgery, established in 1834, and to Armstrong College, founded in 1871 for the teaching of physical sciences.Today, Newcastle has a broad research base in the fields of medicine, science and engineering, social sciences and the humanities. English, Geography, Architecture and Planning, Cultural and Media Studies, Civil Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Biological Sciences, Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Hepatology are among our strongest disciplines.

We aim to be a globally significant research university that performs high quality research across a wide range of disciplines and locations. We conduct our research activities with a commitment to excellence and a concern for the needs of both local society and global issues. The combination of being globally ambitious and regionally rooted underpins our vision of Newcastle as a world-class civic university.

We strive for world-class academic excellence – but excellence with a purpose - so that our high-quality academic work is responsive to large-scale societal needs and demands. Through three established Societal Challenge Themes of ageing, social renewal and sustainability, we focus a significant part of our research effort towards this aim.

Our Faculty of Medical Sciences is based around four main themes: ageing and chronic disease; genetics and rare disease, cancer biology and therapeutics, and basic science underpinning translation.

The Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering (SAgE) encompasses the largest and most comprehensive academic resource for teaching, research and commercialisation in North East England in these three areas. It is particularly strong in Civil Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction.

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) is the largest of Newcastle’s three faculties. Its nine academic schools have particular strengths in geography, planning and urban studies, financial economics and the economics of risk, education, English literature, linguistics and language sciences, and the creative arts.

Research Highlights

Newcastle University was ranked 16th in the UK for research power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, with 78% of our research assessed to be world-leading or internationally excellent. Some notable achievements at subject level included being ranked 3rd in the UK for English, 4th amongst UK medical schools for Clinical Medicine; 1st in the UK for Computing Science impact and 3rd in the UK for Civil Engineering research power. Our annual research income is over £100m.

A new class of drug known as tyrosine kinase inhibitors for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) has been tested in Newcastle-led international clinical trials, spearheaded by Professor Stephen O’Brien. One of these drugs, imatinib, was found to almost double five-year survival rates with few side effects, and has been referred to as the “gold standard of treatment worldwide.” Imatinib is now recommended in national and international guidelines and is used increasingly to treat patients with CML.

Technology developed by Jeff Neasham and colleagues in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has contributed to improving diver safety by enhancing underwater transmission, both in terms of range and reliability. In addition, the development of a number of high performance data telemetry systems has also enabled previously impossible subsea operations to be completed.

Professor Steve Graham’s research into the increasing use of military-style surveillance in our cities is influencing global discussions on matters of security and privacy. His research shows that military-style surveillance is commonplace in our cities – and residents are in danger of accepting it without question.

International Collaborations and Knowledge Transfer

Over the past two years the institution has worked with 540 small and medium-sized enterprises to support their growth. In the last three years 140 spin-outs and graduate businesses have been launched by the University and are still active, bringing jobs and new investment to the North East region.

Examples of translational work include success in understanding the causes and possible control of liver fibrosis with novel approaches to reversing the disease now under development. Within the area of Musculoskeletal Disease Newcastle’s scientists are leading the way in therapies for inflammatory arthritis, establishing standards of care for children with a type of arthritis which has been adopted across the UK and internationally.

Professor Phil Taylor, Director of Newcastle University Institute for Sustainability is leading a UK wide Smart Grid project aimed at revolutionising power networks by maximising efficiency, availability and sustainability of energy supply, working with industrial partners including Siemens. Sugata Mitra, Newcastle University’s Professor of Education, was awarded the 2013 $1m TED prize for his pioneering ‘School in the Cloud’ teaching method which uses the internet to help children learn – both in the UK and India.

Teaching Quality and the Student Experience

Newcastle University has invested over £150m in its city-centre campus, creating new teaching, learning and social spaces including a new Business School, the INTO 800-student teaching centre and a multi-million pound renovation of the Students’ Union.

Its students are among the most employable in the country with 94 percent finding work within six months of graduation. The University is ranked in the UK’s Top 10 for student satisfaction.

The long-standing reputation for quality research and teaching has helped Newcastle University increase its global footprint.

In 2011, Newcastle became the first UK university to establish a medical school overseas. In 2014, the first cohort of 20 medical students graduated from the University’s medical campus in Johor, Malaysia, to embark on new careers in the country’s health service.

In 2009 the University joined forces with SIT, the Singapore Institute of Technology, to launch Newcastle University International Singapore and we have supported 1,350 students to date. We have also entered into a strategic partnership with Xiamen University, in China, where we have identified a number of opportunities for collaborative research projects, and where we plan to offer a number of joint educational programmes

From September 2015 we will be operating a new branch campus in Central London. Newcastle University London will provide full and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate study programmes for students from all over the world, with an initial focus on Business programmes.

Total Enrollment:18223 International Students:4238（23%）Undergraduate Enrollment:14278 International Students:2081（15%）Graduate Enrollment:3945 International Students:2157（55%）